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How to move programs to SD card not internal Memory?

Dumped my buggy not impressive Galaxy s 4g today> (love Costcos 3 months policy) and picked up G2x. So far extremally impressed!
One question is the Costco phone guy handed my the 16gig micro SD card from the Galaxy as he said he had extras from dead phones. I said THANK YOU! and installed. However when using AppstoSd program it only see's internal mem, and Internal SD 5gs. It does not see or give option to move to my 16g Sd card?
My HD2 and Samsung worked great with AppstoSD. Am I missing something? I mean I guess the 1.2gig and 5gigs of internal is enough. But I like to also use the SD card for programs to not overload internal memory.
I have not rooted yet, will do that so I can get my Titanium backup working to see it I can do it with that.
Thanks!

iceshark said:
Dumped my buggy not impressive Galaxy s 4g today> (love Costcos 3 months policy) and picked up G2x. So far extremally impressed!
One question is the Costco phone guy handed my the 16gig micro SD card from the Galaxy as he said he had extras from dead phones. I said THANK YOU! and installed. However when using AppstoSd program it only see's internal mem, and Internal SD 5gs. It does not see or give option to move to my 16g Sd card?
My HD2 and Samsung worked great with AppstoSD. Am I missing something? I mean I guess the 1.2gig and 5gigs of internal is enough. But I like to also use the SD card for programs to not overload internal memory.
I have not rooted yet, will do that so I can get my Titanium backup working to see it I can do it with that.
Thanks!
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Can't be done, discussed endlessly in the corresponding O2x thread...

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Can't be done, discussed endlessly in the corresponding O2x thread...
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Been all over that thread. This issue and the "phantom AT&T bands are two big issues on this device. However, there may be some hope at the CM end - not this item in the latest CM7 changelog"
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Change I6beb0077: Allow multiple shareable SD Cards by using getShareableVolumes() to get all the volumes that are shareable and allowing sharing/unsharing for all of them rather than just the hardcoded getExternalStorage calls.
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First thank you for responding. I am not a newbie but have been rooting and testing my Hd2's for past year. My first non HTC phone in awhile was the vibrant s4g, it had its own problems with very low internal memory.
So I was excited this phone had 8 gigs plus now my 16 gig card. I have not been on these forums so I did not know it was a known issue Sorry.
So to clarify, there is no workaroud? But can I not just use root explorer and move files to the SD card? I understand apps to sd wont do it automaticly. But I plan to put my music and movies at least on SD... What would even be the use of the manufacturer putting SD slot on phone if you could not use it?

Ira that is what I do. SD card = sdcard/external_SD
Or something to that effect. I plan to keep my apps2sd on internal and SD for straight storage and backups.
From the sound of it, the clockwork mod can access the microsd so at least backups will be off the device.
-sent from my LG 2Gx

iceshark said:
First thank you for responding. I am not a newbie but have been rooting and testing my Hd2's for past year. My first non HTC phone in awhile was the vibrant s4g, it had its own problems with very low internal memory.
So I was excited this phone had 8 gigs plus now my 16 gig card. I have not been on these forums so I did not know it was a known issue Sorry.
So to clarify, there is no workaroud? But can I not just use root explorer and move files to the SD card? I understand apps to sd wont do it automaticly. But I plan to put my music and movies at least on SD... What would even be the use of the manufacturer putting SD slot on phone if you could not use it?
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What I have been doing is the basic copy and paste. I copy the app or video ect. from the sd card and paste it on the ext/sd card. If there is a faster oor easier way please let me know. I am rooted and this is the first phone I ever had with this kind of a set up with the sd card. I prefer the other way much better ala Nexus One.

player911 said:
Ira that is what I do. SD card = sdcard/external_SD
Or something to that effect. I plan to keep my apps2sd on internal and SD for straight storage and backups.
From the sound of it, the clockwork mod can access the microsd so at least backups will be off the device.
-sent from my LG 2Gx
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That is correct. In a file manager etc. you can locate your SD Card by going to the ExternalSD folder (path: SD Card/ExternalSD). The "SD Card" is actually the internal memory, and the "External SD" is the actual SD Card. When you plug your phone into a PC two different drives come up, one for the internal and one for the SD Card. From what I know you can't put apps on your actual SD Card. However music, pics, etc. all work just fine. I have all my music on my SD Card and everything else on the internal.
P.S. When opening the internal memory in a PC it will still have an ExternalSD folder, but it will be empty. I would advise not deleting it.

There's something like 1.5GB just for apps. What the heck are you doing to "overload" it??

cyberchuck9000 said:
There's something like 1.5GB just for apps. What the heck are you doing to "overload" it??
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GPS maps will easily overload the internal SD card. If they let the map location be set, that would fix it, but most do not (yet).

just got sensation today

just got a Sensation 4g today, coming from the Vibrant. Got a few questions:
1. so im coming from a Vibrant 3G. I am in a 4g area. Just got my sensation 4g in the mail today. I downloaded speedtest app, and am getting about the same download speeds with my sensation 4g as i got with my vibrant 3g....
any ideas?
2. what is the easiest way to transfer files (picture, movies, music, documents) from my vibrant to the sensation? On my Vibrant it had 16 Gb internal and sensation only has one. on my Vibrant most of my stuff was on the internal. Is it to just mount both to my computer as a drive and copy and paste flies from vibrant onto the sensation external sd card?
Im sure I will think of more to ask, thanks

I'd say to pull everything from vibrant into a folder in computer then from the computer over to sensation personally. But welcome I switched back and forth between vibrant and sensation for a couple months before committing to the sensation ha
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lorddart said:
I'd say to pull everything from vibrant into a folder in computer then from the computer over to sensation personally. But welcome I switched back and forth between vibrant and sensation for a couple months before committing to the sensation ha
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thanks.
I was under the impression that the Sensation has 4gb internal and the 8gb external card. when i go under settings>sd and phone storage, it says 1.06gb available on the internal and 7.0gb on the external card....
any ideas why the internal 4gb says 1gb and the 8gb says 7gb?

kboater said:
thanks.
I was under the impression that the Sensation has 4gb internal and the 8gb external card. when i go under settings>sd and phone storage, it says 1.06gb available on the internal and 7.0gb on the external card....
any ideas why the internal 4gb says 1gb and the 8gb says 7gb?
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Around 3 GB of the phones internal storage is reserved for system files and such. And I'm not sure why, but all microSD cards are like that for some reason. They never have the full capacity that they advertise. I think it's because of how it's formatted, but I could be wrong.

kboater said:
just got a Sensation 4g today, coming from the Vibrant. Got a few questions:
1. so im coming from a Vibrant 3G. I am in a 4g area. Just got my sensation 4g in the mail today. I downloaded speedtest app, and am getting about the same download speeds with my sensation 4g as i got with my vibrant 3g....
any ideas?
2. what is the easiest way to transfer files (picture, movies, music, documents) from my vibrant to the sensation? On my Vibrant it had 16 Gb internal and sensation only has one. on my Vibrant most of my stuff was on the internal. Is it to just mount both to my computer as a drive and copy and paste flies from vibrant onto the sensation external sd card?
Im sure I will think of more to ask, thanks
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I think the Vibrant 3G had a radio that was capable of taking advantage of 4G speeds, but not full 4G.

so, should i just take everything from my vibrant (internal and external sd) and copy it to the external SD (8gb) of the Sensation (pictures, videos i taken, apps, games ect...)???
---also, i have titanium backed up all my apps from vibrant. when i root sensation, should i just copy the titanium backup folder onto sensation to restore all? if so, should i copy it only internal or external?
bascially, from what i am trying to understand, there is only 1gb of internal storage to use. Correct?
If the above is correct, (and please correct me if i am wrong), when i download apps, games, take pictures, take videos, download extra content for a game (like how gameloft has you download an extra 75mb of data), ect... do these go to the 1gb of useable internal storage or the external SD?

Only apps and games are stored in the internal storage! Everything else is stored in the sd card ( including games data ) . So i would recomend you let android market restore your apps and then transfer everything else to your sd. Hope i've helped and sorry for my english
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Use titanium backup (free from the market) to backup your apps and games to your Vibrant's SD Card, copy the whole titanium backup folder to your Sensation's sdcard and restore.

so i have trasfered the titanium backup folder from the Vibrant to the Sensation. Also installed Titanium backup app. when i go into the Titanium backup app, and click batch to restore my apps from the vibrant, under the option to restore my backups it does not say i have any apps backed up...
any help?
EDIT: nvm, figured it out. the back up folder was in another folder. i had to move it to the root of the SD card

Hey KB
let me know if that guide I wrote works for you
To answer your questions:
- 3GB of the 4GB internal storage is "reserved" for the system (not including downloaded apps). Seeing as how most ROMs are around 350MB this seems wasteful. You have 1.05GB user accessible storage for Apps.
- You 8GB SD card is actually calculated as 8 billion bytes (base 10), but since your computer uses binary it's actually around 7.5GB. The manufacturer reports it as 8GB out of misrepresentation. It's a longstanding issue with all sorts of storage. You'll be even more pissed off if you buy a 2TB drive
-4G is 3G. Well for most carriers anyway. TRUE 4G is LTE/Wimax, which is a different hardware radio. This is not a TRUE 4G phone. It's actually a 3.5G phone (HSPA+) and that spec reaches "4G speeds" theoretically, according to PR. In reality, you won't get those speeds. More lies.

RoboDan918 said:
Hey KB
let me know if that guide I wrote works for you
To answer your questions:
- 3GB of the 4GB internal storage is "reserved" for the system (not including downloaded apps). Seeing as how most ROMs are around 350MB this seems wasteful. You have 1.05GB user accessible storage for Apps.
- You 8GB SD card is actually calculated as 8 billion bytes (base 10), but since your computer uses binary it's actually around 7.5GB. The manufacturer reports it as 8GB out of misrepresentation. It's a longstanding issue with all sorts of storage. You'll be even more pissed off if you buy a 2TB drive
-4G is 3G. Well for most carriers anyway. TRUE 4G is LTE/Wimax, which is a different hardware radio. This is not a TRUE 4G phone. It's actually a 3.5G phone (HSPA+) and that spec reaches "4G speeds" theoretically, according to PR. In reality, you won't get those speeds. More lies.
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your guide worked great! thanks!
the problem was my computer. finally tried a third computer that worked.
thanks!

[Q] 16GB MircoSD problem for infuse?

Today I purchased a PNY 16gb microSD for my infuse, when I got home I turned off the phone took out the battery and took out my old 2GB and put in the 16gb. When in the settings it told me I had 7.68gb left on my internal memory and 1.87gb left on the SD card, why doesn't it recognize the SD card?

You don't mention formatting the 16gig, did you do so?
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Radiotsar said:
You don't mention formatting the 16gig, did you do so?
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No, I didn't think I had to since I just bought it from walmart. lol

How do I format the external SD?

Do it up on the computer broski. Real simple. Use the piece that Sammy gave you in the Infuse box, plug it in, it will recognize it as a mass storage device and FAT32 it up.. real simple. Dead simple. Quick or fast, or whatever it is format works damn well. Boom. 16 gig. Worked both in the my phone and my tablet..Good luck bro.
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Exactly what I intend to do when I get a 64gig.
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I formatted it, but it still says sdcard has 7.68GB available which is INTERNAL memory, and it says internal memory is 1.87GB available which was from my 2GB sdcard that I removed. I can still put files on the MicroSD but it isn't recognizing it as having the ful 14.8 GB that it should be available on it.

Radiotsar said:
Exactly what I intend to do when I get a 64gig.
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Don't bother getting a 64 for your infuse, the infuse only supports up to a 16gig
Also can anyone help me it recognizes the SD but not as having 14.8GB on it.

GuidoZebra said:
Don't bother getting a 64 for your infuse, the infuse only supports up to a 16gig
Also can anyone help me it recognizes the SD but not as having 14.8GB on it.
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I thought it supported up to 32gigs...
Anyways i while back i got a class 10 16gb Amazonbasics micro sd card for $26-speed tests on my phone proved it was actually class 10 too! when i recieved it i didnt formatit at all, i just did what the op said, i took out battery took out preloaded 2gig card pluged in new 16 gig card and it showed up right away
You say its showing you have about a gig on external right? That neans it has to be detecting something or its just stuck on the old one since even tho its gone...heres what i would do:
1) go to seetings>sd card and phone storage>format usb storage
2) reboot
If that fails then:
3) if you have a rom installed then reflash
4) last resort odin back to stock
Hope that helps and if it doesnt see if the amazon basic sd card i got is still on sale if it is i highly suggest getting it!
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mg2195 said:
I thought it supported up to 32gigs...
Anyways i while back i got a class 10 16gb Amazonbasics micro sd card for $26-speed tests on my phone proved it was actually class 10 too! when i recieved it i didnt formatit at all, i just did what the op said, i took out battery took out preloaded 2gig card pluged in new 16 gig card and it showed up right away
You say its showing you have about a gig on external right? That neans it has to be detecting something or its just stuck on the old one since even tho its gone...heres what i would do:
1) go to seetings>sd card and phone storage>format usb storage
2) reboot
If that fails then:
3) if you have a rom installed then reflash
4) last resort odin back to stock
Hope that helps and if it doesnt see if the amazon basic sd card i got is still on sale if it is i highly suggest getting it!
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I am on MIUI so I go to SDcard and hit format? because that is the only Format option I know of. Also since it is backwards in the about phone ( Internal Storage is actually Sdcard and Sdcard is actually Internal) I don't want to accidentally format my phone.

Hmm..not on miui but for me i actually have to unmount sdcard then i can format...i know i said something different earlier
So yah if you have the option to unmount one of them then thats the one you want to format and you may need to unmount to format it
If you cant format (which ive never needed to do only done it to start clean) then there might be something wrong with your rom
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I just took the Sdcard out completely and then restarted, it STILL told me I had 1.87GB left. I plugged my phone into the computer, Removable disc L (SD card), was recognized, and removable disc K (Internal Storage) both had the right amount of available space on them, why won't the phone recognize the SD card?

Only supports 16 gig huh... damn! I guess I meet to take this 32 gig card out then and change it.... :/
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GuidoZebra said:
Don't bother getting a 64 for your infuse, the infuse only supports up to a 16gig
Also can anyone help me it recognizes the SD but not as having 14.8GB on it.
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So what I've seen elsewhere about other androids that don't support 64gb being able to work with 64gb (essentially ~59gb at formatting) doesn't apply as well to the Infuse?

GuidoZebra said:
I just took the Sdcard out completely and then restarted, it STILL told me I had 1.87GB left. I plugged my phone into the computer, Removable disc L (SD card), was recognized, and removable disc K (Internal Storage) both had the right amount of available space on them, why won't the phone recognize the SD card?
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Like i said earlier the phone is detecting something otherwise it would say no sdcard inserted-problem is its stuck on detecting the old sdcard...try turning your phone on without the sdcard and see what it says because im guessing its going to still say 1.87gb left if it does then im sorry but you should probably try reflashing your rom, if that doesnt work then try odin back to stock i know its not much help but its all i can think of
If it says no sdcard inserted without the sdcard in than you probably have a defective sdcard. If thats the case go exchange it for a new one wherever you bought it at
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Radiotsar said:
So what I've seen elsewhere about other androids that don't support 64gb being able to work with 64gb (essentially ~59gb at formatting) doesn't apply as well to the Infuse?
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The infuse supports sdhc, up to 32 gigs. Those other devices support sdxc which covers sdhc cards and sdxc cards. My Thrive supports the 64gb sdxc cards nicely but they're just too expensive right now.
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From what I've read, it's a minor software tweak/update away from working on the Infuse, not a hardware issue.
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How many threads do you have??
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I had a similar problem with SD card when I first got my Infuse
"Found someone else over at Android Central who had the same exact problem with the same exact card, the Patriot 16GB SDHC class 4 found at Microcenter. Suffice to say I am just going to exchange it for a SanDisk"

dman3285 said:
How many threads do you have??
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The higher the thread count the better. My sheets are 750 and I sleep like a baby.
Oh my bad, you meant thread counts on sd cards so this one is just taking up space.

[Q] MicroSD card use locked S3 i535

*let me just start with a big thanks to the XDA community, you guys rock!*
I started my droid journey with the Droid2, the Droid2 Global.....now, just this weekend, I've updated the vaulted Galaxy S3 i535 16gb verision
Now, the situation I'm seeing is that the microSD care is not letting me interact with it as I expect
I'm unable to make folders
Clicking n dragging items to it are failing, getting access denied errors
My question is simple: is the phone 'forcing me' to use the internal memory prior to using the card memory
I prefer to keep all my audio and pics on the card, not really looking to ROM it. Superadmin access is set
I've seen the threads about unlocking it,but have also seen the issues with the current version from Verizon as well
droid v 4.0.4
carrier VZW
baseband version I535VRLG7
thanks in advance for any feedback

You need to format your card to fat32
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I had already did the formatting on it, that's why I'm puzzled about it not working
I've taken my 8gb card from my droid, removed all content but the lost.dir and am using that temporarily.

What size is your card that youre having issues with? And formatting thru the phone doesn't switch it to FAT32 if that's in fact why it's not working for you.

32GB card, and yes I know how the box it won't format. what's puzzled me is that the 8gb card, same maker, coming out of my droid2 works fine.

Have you tried formatting it using the tool that's floating around?

[Q] Micro SD card problem?

My SD card is a bit bugged recently. Basically, the SD card won't do anything such as accessing photos or music. Also, I tried moving some apps to my SD card, but that resulted with a "CONTAINMENT_ERROR" or something like that. Also, when I try to download apps, it says that there are no space in USB or SD memory storage. I know this is wrong because I don't have a USB storage, and my SD card is 1/3 full, so how can I fix this? I think that I require a formatting on my SD, but that's a last resort, with all my info on it. If that's the only way, please suggest this with an explanation.
If this helps, I remember killing some system processes such as some sort of signing thing which I believe is what signs the apps to install onto my phone. Please help me out here. Oh yeah, I can text and call fine as well as accessing the internet and wifi. Anything involving my SD card such as downloads, however, are a different story. Got suggestions?

Have you tried a card reader on your desktop to pull photos and music from it? If so and cannot then I don't know what to tell you but if you can, pull everything you want off of it then format SD card
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fabricatedhero said:
Have you tried a card reader on your desktop to pull photos and music from it? If so and cannot then I don't know what to tell you but if you can, pull everything you want off of it then format SD card
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Yeah, I tried formatting, but it doesn't seem to remove any data. I can move files to my cpu, but when i move apps to my SD card, or at least try, it says [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_BAD_MANIFEST] Do you know what that means by any chance? The moving also says [INSTALL_FAILED_CONTAINER_ERROR] too.

KoreanJoker said:
Yeah, I tried formatting, but it doesn't seem to remove any data. I can move files to my cpu, but when i move apps to my SD card, or at least try, it says [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_BAD_MANIFEST] Do you know what that means by any chance? The moving also says [INSTALL_FAILED_CONTAINER_ERROR] too.
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I would be a bit concerned that you can't format the card. Its a good sign that the computer can read the card but not good that you can't format it. See if you can try the card in another smart phone and if you have the same issue its just a problem with the sd card.
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SD card not letting me add or delete files
I've been spending waaay to much time trying to get this phone to work as I had expected with previous phones (even my LG G2x) giving me less problems. I recently bought a Sandisk 32gb, class 10 micro sd card and after transferring old music, pictures and videos from my old LG G2x with a 16gb card, placing files from my computer back onto my S4 with the 32gb card is a nightmare! Photos are transferred but too out of order to try and deal with although it's more the music problem that has me bugging. I have some success after putting about 3gb or so onto the new 32gb sd card but after that, the sd card flips out and starts using special characters for file names.. Below I attached a screenshot of what I'm going through with another app called V1 Golf for Android. I'm stuck and any help is much appreciated. I can't delete anything on my sd card nor can I add. I've reformatted this card about 4 times now without success. Some say that a Sandisk have been nothing but problems for them, you think a Samsung card could be the fix?

I just have one question for you guys. Are you using a Galaxy S 4G or the Galaxy S4? If it is the latter, please take your questions
here for T-Mobile
here for Verizon
here for Sprint
here for AT&T
and here for International
as this section is for the Galaxy S 4G. Thanks and good luck.